Vintage Posters

Artist and illustrator Gil Elvgren painted an all-American brand of "cheesecake" pictures of sexy, idealised calendar girls during the advertising hey day of the Fifties and Sixties. Along with Alberto Vargas and George Petty, Elvgren created an era of sensual, hyper-feminine images. Elvgren Girls are always beautiful, with an expression of innocent surprise as something beyond their control, such as a breeze, lifts their skirts to give an eyeful of shapely legs in stockings and suspenders.